A little Explanation about my CHS · 2:28pm Jan 20th, 2020
So, just so there's no confusion as to why Lis attends 5th grade at CHS, I base the CHS in my story on the germany form of school called Gymnasium, specifically the bavarian version, that goes from year 5 to year 12.
Basic stuff again first.
There's no semesters or terms. Just years.
They get a report sheet after the first half of the year, but that's just their current stats, nothing else. They can't fail the year because of their half year report grades.
In each year, you have classes like English, math, biology, chemistry, physics, PE, you get the idea. The name of the specific class is the subject and the year. For example, the math class in year 10 is simply called 10th year Math, or simply math by the students in year 10.
CHS in Noctris Girls uses the German grading scale, so 100% to 91% is grade 1 (official name: Very Good), 90% to 80% is grade 2 (Good), 79% to 60% is grade 3 (Satisfactory), 59% to 50% is grade 4 (sufficient), 49% to 16% is grade 5 (insufficient) and 15% to 0% is grade 6 (failed). Both grade 5 and 6 mean that the student didn't pass.
Every class in every year has 2 to 4 Big Exams and additional Small Exams (presentations, short tests, stuff like that). The grade a student has in a class is calculated by taking the average of the Big Exams times two, adding the average of the Small Exams, and dividing the result by three.
If a student has either two grade 5s or one grade 6 in their end of year report sheet, they fail the year. Failing a year results in the student having to repeat the entire year, ie both the classes they failed and the classes they passed, so a student that fails, for example, year 7 would attend year 7 in the following school year again.
The last two years have slightly other rules. I will explain those when it becomes important and once any possible confusion about the basic setup are cleared up.